AWS Services

AWS services that can enhance your DevOps workflows:

1. VPC: Virtual Private Cloud to launch AWS resources in a defined virtual network.

2. AMI (template in Amazon Web Services (AWS) that contains the information needed to launch a virtual server, EC2)

3. EBS (Volume): Elastic Block Store for persistent block storage.

4. S3 (Storage): Simple Storage Service for scalable object storage. Can be used for hosting static website.

5. EC2: Virtual servers in the cloud.

6. Lambda Function: Serverless computing service to run code. It’s a event-driven architecture used in cost optimization, security

1. IAM: Identity and Access Management for secure access control.

2. Service Accounts: K8s pods to access

* AWS Services (using IRSA - IAM Roles for Service Accounts)

* K8s API itself

1. AWS Cloud CI/CD Services:

* **AWS CodeCommit:** Code Host and versioning, like `github`.

* **AWS CodeBuild**: Fully managed build service for continuous integration, like `mvn`. `buildspec.yml` is use to define the build process.

* **AWS CodeDeploy**: Automates code deployments to any instance, like `Argo CD`. `appspec.yml` is use to configure the deployment process.

* **AWS CodePipeline**: CI/CD service for fast and reliable application updates, like `Jenkins`.

1. CloudWatch: Monitoring, alerting, reporting, logging and observability service.

2. Billing & Cost Management: Tools to track and manage AWS costs and usage.

3. CloudFront (CDN):

* It is `CDN` (content delivery network) service, with a vast network of `edge location (servers).`

* It offers `caching` which deliver web content to users with `high performance & low latency.`

1. ECR (Elastic Container Registry): Use to store container image like Docker Hub.

2. Fargate: Serverless compute engine for containers.

3. ECS (Elastic Container Service): AWS's own container orchestration service. Do not support CRD like K8s.

4. AWS EKS: Managed Kubernetes service.

5. AWS KMS (Key Management Service): Encryption and management of cryptographic keys Securely.

6. CloudTrail: Service that enables governance, compliance, and operational and risk auditing of your AWS account.

7. AWS Config: Service to assess, audit, and evaluate configurations of AWS resources.

8. ELK (ElasticSearch): Service for real-time log analysis and visualization.

9. Route 53:

* Amazon Route 53 is a highly available and scalable `Domain Name System (DNS) web service`.

* Route 53 to perform 3 main functions in any combination:

    `domain registration, DNS routing, and health checking.`

1. AWS CFT (Cloud Formation Template):

* It is a `Infra as a code` tool for AWS like Terraform.

* It offers `Drift detection`